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| Birth date | , December 24, 1822 | | Place of birth | Laleham, Middlesex, England | | Date of death | , April 15, 1888(age 0) | | Death place | Liverpool, England | | Nationality | British | | Occupation | Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools | | Period | Victorian | | Notable works | "Dover Beach", "The Scholar-Gipsy", "Thyrsis", Culture and Anarchy, Literature and Dogma | | Influenced by | William Wordsworth, John Keats, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, John Henry Newman, Goethe, Senancour | | Influenced | George Saintsbury, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling, Mordecai Kaplan, Don Cupitt, Florence Earle Coates |
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Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.
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